Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-06-30
Bill Nyc Delivers u Characteristic and
Patriotic Address.

uccu obc HuHuicu anu cleNeH ycais oii'S'
the most successful and most prosper
Gus republic known thus fur TO history
sent fourth upon the sultry air Its first
feeble cry. One hundred and clever
years ago this morning, the small RED
infant known as American Liberty
jammed her purple fists into her watery
eyes and made few desultory remarks
which were heard la the uttermosl
parts OF the earth.
To-day she is full-grown person
with digni1ed mien. and has had 9
statGe of herself taken, which stands IN
the harbor of New York, and although
she lights up the country for miles a.
round, with her tall torch, there is nc
one who has eyer been able TO hold
candle to her in the Liberty business.
Those who are to-day within the
sound OF my voice, and who are over
one hundred and eleven years of age
will perhaps recall to their minds the
deplorable condition of things here II
our young and struggling country al
that time.
II we moved out West in order to Sc
cure more freedom, the venturesomt
savage filled us full of arrows till VT
looked like toothpick holders, and when
we came back for protection ,thehaughty
Briton assessed us and crushed us be-
meath the iron heel of the despot.
Now, wherever the starry banner
hangs out to greet the gentle breeze all
all are free. Little do we know to-day
here in America, what it is to suffe!
for freedom. Liberty does good bus,
mess here in the United States now
and the man who runs out of freedom
shows that no is u shiftless man and d
poor proYider.
Only a little oyer a century ago We
dared not go out after dark without q
chilled steel corset. for fear that The
maroon n-colored children of the forest
might let the pale, shimmering moon
light in among our vital organs 10y
means of their crude tomahawks. Their
life was indeed uncertain and disagree
able. People remained at home rather
than return TO their houses with hole:
in themselves and wildly disheyelet
brains.
Now man can start and go any
where if he will pay his fare.
And so zee are marching on. What {
grand stride it is from the despotism o
century ago, TO the long and shor
haul Of to-day p? What n mighty Leaf
from the barbarism of hundred year.
ago, to the glorious sunlight of freedom
,Chich ice enjoy notC?
Where once the slotr-going OK team
and Belcher box tragon crept through
the toilderness, liable 10 be scattered
over the greens,oard mt any moment 10y
the yelling lnjun,no,0 the patient ne,cs
paper man, the member Of Congress:
and the Associate Justice of the Su
preme Court. .,Uith their coats over theil
arms, toll along the level slCeep OF rail
road tchich they assisted to build by
means of their lana grants and mora
encouragement, looking eyer and anon
over their shoulders for the approach oi
the yelling modern lnjun.
Times have indeed changed in the
past century. 4 hundred years age
,Chisky ,Cas sold ut forty cents per gal
Ion, and every other man you met 'cas
statesman. Noi0 you have TO pay
fifteen cents for enough trhisky to ,Cei
the bottom of a small tumbler, and
there hasn't been speech made In the
House of Representatives for three
years that tCas listened TO by anybody
but the stenographer.
so liberty, while enlarging her field
has not alWays ameliorated the condi
ton of mankind. We are prone &c
boast over the enormous mass OF free
dom which zoe haYe accumulated here
in America, and yet the freedom of The
press has been greatly impaired, if
may be alloiCed that expression.
Too much caste has been the result
of recent latCs. A year ago l held W
my head and mingled ,Cith a class o.
men t1ho to-day refuse to recognize me
They lOere then, and are notC, of course
men of tcealth and social position /; but
so am /.
allude to the railDay conductors o.
the United States.
A year ago knew them from New
York TO San Francisco, and associated
with them frequently, allowing myself
to be drawn forward into the smoking
car to mingle with them and visit pre-
and con.
But what do l find to-day ? l fine
ths same men running on the same
trains. but they aie arrogant, haught!
and reserved. One of them placed m'
on a side track last spring in the night
In the midst OF pitilesJ storm, be-
cause l tried to renew former ac-
quaintance with him, and ride int
Chicago with him.
He said that l could not ride on N!
acquaintance with him by any means
but that would soon be riding on tn,
small of my back IL l did not pay m!
fare TO the city.
And so remained that night in th'
midst of some ancient ruins called Mon
mouth. l was not acquainted In Mon
mouth. and I had no business there
Nobody ever had any business there
that / ever heard OF, ,and yet remained
there through what was left Of tha
terrible night.
often think that our forefathers die
not suffer any more hardships than VI